Re: bash: for to, reading escaped spaces in filenames

[David selby <debian@pusspaws.net>]

Jeff Schaller wrote:

> > David selby <debian@pusspaws.net> wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > I need to scan a directory for the file names contained in it.
> > >      
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> > > However some of the file names are in the form of
> > > 342345\ remind\ for\ apt-get\ update
> > >
> > > ie they have escaped spaces in the name.
> > >      
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> > > Without resorting to complex string manipulation & cutting, is there a
> > > neat way to do this ?
> > >      
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> I missed the start of this thread (just joined the list), but does
> this work for you?
>
> ls -1 *pattern* | while read file; do echo $file; done
>
> -jeff
>  
Many thanks for your input, finally used a globbing solution by steve,

for var in ..../*; do
....
done

Though I will try your suggestion, I had not thought of this either !

Dave